While white people certainly love “the cinema,” they are required to balance their interest in film with an interest in live theater, most notably plays.
In spite of plays having minimal sets, no special effects, an intermission, and a higher admission price, white people believe that live theater is essential to any cultured city.
It is not known if white people actually enjoy plays or if they are just victims of massive peer pressure from the 45% of white people who have acted in a play at some point in their life.
The only real advice around this subject is to never accept an invitation from a white person to go see a play. Often times you will be supporting their friend or cousin and then get stuck with a $45 ticket (at least) and three hours of trying to figure how close you are to the end.
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I agree with the opening topic. Plays are a white thing.
Blacks are now doing it to try and still over come the problems they face in Hollywood because we know that a lot of white TV and movie stars started in theatre.
I personally don’t care one bit about plays. As a matter of fact if I’m watching a movie and they start singing I shut it off.
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I’m an English major and you wouldn’t believe the looks of hatred I get when I say that I generally can’t stand modern plays. It’s as though I’ve admitted to torturing small animals or children. But many plays written since the 1960s just try too hard to be postmodern and don’t make sense and they suck. They suck ass!
Beckett, Ionesco, Kane, Osborne, Bond, Pinter, Ravenhill, Jones, Stoppard, Shepard etc etc
All, arguably, postmodern, all brilliant.
Incidently, can the next post be ‘the word postmodernism?’
This brother don’t know what the hell any of y’all talkin’ about.
I agree with you. This whole post-modernist movement has turned into anyone’s license to be pompous and pretentious. Nothing is avant garde anymore.
This explains why when I went to see Roots at the local theatre, Kunta was white! I said, “Dang man, when they turn a brother into Toby they ain’t playin’ in here!”
I pretty much have been guilted into watching more than one play in my life time. One of them was even about “hillbillies singing gospel” *shudder, and I almost never recovered from it. Hate isn’t too strong a word. Somehow every year or so I get duped into one. Its kind of like the accident that Mary Kaye parties are, everyone warns you not to go, and then you kind of commit anyway-without really thinking. Long about act 48, you start wondering who the hell had the right to create this monument to human suffering anyway. And. I don’t want any of your damn make up Mary.
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Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Justice, Truth, and Equality?
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No, that’s the “American” way, though the French adapted it in French and the Russians tried out the Soviet Union idea but didn’t get it right. I always thought Magna Carta was the first human rights document written in 1215 (old joke: I missed it by 2 hrs. 45 mins. ago). +
no
Improvisational theater (comedy) is liked by white people who say they don’t like theater.
Theater (and especially theatre) has a certain snob appeal which allows one to justify spending three hours sitting in a lawn chair, guzzling Chardonnay, listening to a language which – although an antique variation of one’s own – one does not understand.
Many summers ago, the Shakespeare festival in my town decided to put on “Damn Yankees” while the local musical theater company took on “Sweeney Todd”. Both shows were financial failures. I suspect that the Shakespeare patrons found the classic musical comedy was not elite enough for their tastes. Likewise, the musical theater’s patrons walked out in droves every night as the Judge literally whipped himself into a frenzy over his adopted daughter. Had the two venues traded productions, their audiences might have been happier.
As for me, I dread the day when theater makes the list of “Stuff Old People Like”, if it hasn’t already.
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